Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-20
Thursday, January 20, 1887.
THE ELECTION AFFIRMED.

YEAR. THE SAME TERMS By MAIL. Thursday, January 20, 1887.
 THE ELECTION AFFIRMED. Senator Hawley Addresses the Joint
 Assembly and Thanks Them for the
 Honor Conferred-The Sunday Trains -Many New Hills HntrOduced-Three
 by New Haven Representative
 The City Court Judges-The County
 Commissioners.
 HARTFORD. Jan. 19.
 Especial to the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 The General Assembly. in joint convention assembled, to day affirmed the reelection Of the Hon. Joseph R. Hawley to the United States Senate for a term of six years.
 Several bills of considerable importance were presented to-day. MT. Hyde, of Hart ford, introduced bill early in the session which has been much discussed. It was petition asking that Sunday traffic on rail- roads be regulated. It provides that no train shall be run except between the hours of a. m. and p. m., but mail and such other trains may be authorized by the railroad commissioners if they are require by dpubllc necessity o1 for the preservation of freight.
  station shall be permitted between sunrise and sunset except from necessity or mercy A forfeiture of $250 is to be collected for every violation of the act in an action of debt, one-half to the person who shall sue and the l other half to go to the State. This act is not to affect existing statutes except so far as II | may be inconsistent with them. The bill IS | virtually the same one introduced and de- feated last year. The presenting of the bill | this year was the result of the action taken at the last annual meeting of the Congrega- tiora State conference. commi ttee was l appointed to have the matter in charge. The l work is thus strictly confined 10 the Congregational churches, although l co operation from other denominations was | received The bill was advocated by the conference because of the general sentiment that prevailed among those who attended that the Sunday traffic in Connecticut was gradually but surely overreaching the bounds of public morality, and that the best interests of the people Of the State would be conserved by the restriction of the business to certain extent. The clergymen receg- nized the necessity of certain Sunday trains as will be seen by the tenure of the bill ln- troduced. The supporters of the bill hope to get fair decision from the legislature, and they very likely shall in spite of the much talked of and oftentimes greatly prevari- cated railroad lobby. It is the opinion of one of the supporters of the bill that they will get something. Many doubt the success of the petition, however.
 Representative Huhie, of New Haven, made his first move to day by the presenta- ton of three bills. One was for the amend rnent of an act concerning taxation and pro- viding that any person who claims to pc un- justly taxed may within one year from the massage of this act seek redress, and if he proves his case the tax shall be refunded. Another bill introduced by MT. Hunie fixes the rate of interest at 6 per cent. and pro vIdes for the recovery by legal process Of taxes assessed upon the loan and insurance upon the estate mortgaged when the bor- lower has agreed to pay such taxes and in surance: and the third bill is that every as signing debtor shall deliver to the Probate court a sworn list of his creditors and the amounts due them and also a schedule of all his property.
 The Republican members of New Haven county held their caucus this afternoon to nominate candidates for judge and assistant iulge of the New Haven City court. It was no surprise when the fact was announced that the judge was Lucius F. Deming and the assistant judge Rufus $. Pickett. The Senate passed resolution reappoint- ing Messrs. Deming and Pickett. This reso- lution dld not reach the House in time to be acted upon, but will probably como up early in to-morrow's session They will undoubt- ediy be elected. There was no opposition in the caucus and the nominations were unanl nous. The caucus also nominated Judges Coe and Thayer of the Meriden City court | Tie resolution got through both houses and | Messrs. Coe and Thayer are elected to the l respective positions of judge and deputy | judge of the Meriden City court.
 The bill concerning county commissioners was presented to day by Representative 1 Thompson, of New Haven. It has already heen described in detail. It provides that | three county commissioners in each county shall be appointed by tie General Assembly during the session of 1887, two to hold office until July l i, 1891, the term of office of the commission 1 CTS so appointed to begin July l, 1887, and | that of the other July l, 1888. F. w. Perry, | of Waterbury, and s. B. Bailey, of Nauga- | CTS candidates. It is thought by many that l County Commissioner Durham will be re l elected by good majority. In Middlesex | county the county commissionership fight ! will be a warm one it is predicted. The term of Silas R. Holmes expires July 1 of the
  for the place. Among them are Josiah M. | Hubbard, Alfred Wright and Frederick Vii nal.
 | Senator Hall introduced two labor bills in l the Senate to day They were both referred to the labor committee. The first required mining, quarrying, mercantile, railroad, street railway, telegraph, telephone and mu- 1 nicipal corporation, express or water com 1 panies, shall make full weekly payments,
 under penalty of from $10 to $50. The oth-
 CT bill introduced by Senator Hall was to the | effect that women and children shall not be
 employed in manufacturing establishments
 more than ten hours daily, excepting when l repairs are made. or to make up for time lost 1 the same week" The bill also provides a penalty for using intimidation or force to l prevent any person from entering into or l continuing in the employment of any person or corporation.
 The legislative committee on contested
 elections continued their hearing on the cage | of Preston Atwood, Republican, of Wood
 bury, against Michael F. Skelly. The peti-
 ton sets forth that the following ballots
 were counted for Skelly One or two with | out the name of the office, one or two double l votes, ballots with too many names, that one | or two disappeared and various other allega- | tions making thirteen separate counts. 1 Some of the members of the House are l agitating among themselves the advisabil, l lJY or luIEOuuCluS IO5Olu1IoIi ooh l ing for more remuneration. Now that 1 the biennial sessions are to be the rule it is
 the emphatic opinion of many of the Houae members that the remuneration should be | increased. F'The prospects of a long session
 would increase the popularity of such a res
 olution,'' said Representative tonight, ''and
 the matter will come to head, l think, be-
 fore long" Many of the farmer members of
 the House beginning to feel that they
 will lose on the spring crop and Representa-
 tives who are followers of other occupations
 say they don't get enough to absent them
 selves with any profit from their regular
 business, and some even say that they vii
 lose money before the session is over.
 | LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
 The caucus of the senators and representa-
 tives interested in agriculture was held in th'
 House after adjournment yesterday.
 Senator Gallagher was congratulated dur ing the day on his narrow escape from wha l might have been a serious accident. While
 stepping off the train yesterday he slipped ! and fell heavily to the platform.